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...many as 2000 spectators are expected to line the banks of the river to pelt participants with rotten vegetables and other projectiles in an effort to spice up the event...

Author: By Lizzie S. Weinreb, | Title: Ships of Fools to Hit Charles | 4/29/1988 | See Source »

...McGiffen '89, a contestant in last year'srace, said a fresh blend of fish guts was pouredon him and that he was pelted by rotten potatoes...

Author: By Lizzie S. Weinreb, | Title: Ships of Fools to Hit Charles | 4/29/1988 | See Source »

...great aunts] was pelting the White House with rotten eggs because Wilson wasn't moving fast enough," while the other was being coy with senators to get them to vote for suffrage...

Author: By Cynthia L. Mao, | Title: Aide Lambasts Candidates | 4/12/1988 | See Source »

Sixty years ago, Bobby Jones never mentioned dispersion factors. He kissed his putter and called her Calamity Jane. "Sixty years ago," says Gene Sarazen, still slickered down and knickered up and still playing golf at 86, "I had a rotten grip. If you ask me, that's why there are so many excellent players today. A good grip is like a solid hinge on an oak door." Sarazen goes back to hickory sticks that required shellacking in the rain, and is amused by the '80s fashion, which encompasses titanium shafts, tungsten fibers, beryllium-copper, manganese-bronze and high-modulus graphite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Can't See Woods For the Tees | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

...subject matter of almost universal concern," says Mitchell Daniels, president of the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank. "There's genuine alarm about year after year of rotten performance...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Ivory Platforms | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

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